Show HN: Not Depressing News • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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Post by armatav » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 3:44 AM UTC

isoskeles wrote: post #36

For the observer: Don't worry, this is still politically slanted. It's "not depressing" that donations pour in after some wacko burned "LGBTQ books" (for children, left out of the headline; also, exactly four books). Not sure I have time for that much news, depressing or not. And I definitely don't need to be told that it's the opposite of depressing that some people are getting into a tit-for-tat over LGBTQ children…

It's just scraping everything right now - I'm working on a proper filter for it.

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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Post by kopo » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 3:52 AM UTC

bitexploder wrote: post #25

On the one hand, I will compliment this and say what a good idea is this is. The world is becoming, on average, a less violent, more prosperous place since the industrial revolution. Fewer people starve and there is much less armed conflict. People need to be reminded of this. But it can be a really dangerous game to live in an bubble and turn blinders on to reality. I hope everyone can take this "not depressing" new…

Reality is not simple to decipher in an environment of info overload.

Imagine walking into a huge library. Every book has descriptions of complex problems. Some books have solutions. Some books don't. But you can only read one book at a time. In that library you can focus on the book that matches your needs and skills. And the world doesn't seem too crazy.

Now imagine the same library, but with a thousand different people shouting at you to come look at the problem in some book they picked just up. What kind of reality are you going to experience in that library?

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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Post by armatav » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 4:34 AM UTC

Well, it got yoinked off the front page. Sucks.

https://imgur.com/a/coYjsZ4

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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Post by rococode » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 8:11 AM UTC

armatav wrote: post #12

corysama wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a tiny bit of typography on the links would go a long way to making the site look more professional.

I'd be happy to add that, if you can suggest what kind of typography I should use or take a look at

A basic start: bigger font size, drop the underscore (text-decoration: none), change the font color to black or dark gray. You can do a lighter color on hover to make it clear it's a link.

Not perfect, but I think it's better than what's live right now. You can browse for a nicer font, too. Plenty of free choices at Google Fonts.

End result would be something like this: https://i.imgur.com/c7YJCN9.png

Maybe align the text with the image as well, although vertical aligns are always a big pain to implement haha.

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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Post by szilardboy » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 8:17 AM UTC

Reddit is blocked by most if not all major ISPs in Indonesia, which breaks the site without the use of a proxy.

Maybe scrape Reddit server-side? I’m not too sure if that would work but just a suggestion.

I really like the idea, though.

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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Post by ohashi » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 8:32 AM UTC

Karuma wrote: post #8

So, you're just taking the list from https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/ ? You should at least name/link them somewhere...

It looks like it's just UpliftingNews but uglier than reddit (which is kind of impressive). I think for it to be an MVP it has to be more than just scraping some community's content. Otherwise this is just an RSS view of one subreddit - I'd rather get the subreddit and all the comments and content surrounding it. No real added benefit from this site.

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 8:52 AM UTC

bitexploder wrote: post #25

On the one hand, I will compliment this and say what a good idea is this is. The world is becoming, on average, a less violent, more prosperous place since the industrial revolution. Fewer people starve and there is much less armed conflict. People need to be reminded of this. But it can be a really dangerous game to live in an bubble and turn blinders on to reality. I hope everyone can take this "not depressing" new…

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Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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Post by ahje » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 9:03 AM UTC

armatav wrote: post #2

Hey HN, I'm looking for some feedback on NDN, it's a little MVP that will eventually give you only the not-depressing news from all over the web - it's seeing quite a bit of retention, and I'd like to know what you think! I'd like to turn it into a product, but it's pretty hard to see where to go.

The idea seems nice, but:

> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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Post by solarkraft » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 9:03 AM UTC

szilardboy wrote: post #45

Reddit is blocked by most if not all major ISPs in Indonesia, which breaks the site without the use of a proxy. Maybe scrape Reddit server-side? I’m not too sure if that would work but just a suggestion. I really like the idea, though.

Maybe use a VPN? The issue is clearly with indonesian ISPs.

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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Post by tontonius » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 9:11 AM UTC

From time to time there tends to arise a demand for news that are not "bad" or depressing or paints the world in a somber palette. However, I'm often reminded of this quote by George Orwell:

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”

Perhaps news are inherently skewed towards the negative side, and that's the way it should be.